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Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)



On 02/10/17 23:39, Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote:
So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive?
I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes:
On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christensen wrote:
Sometimes you get lucky and the tool is a live CD:
www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO
I didn't feel like burning a CD and it has been a long time since I had
a box with a 3.5" floppy (although i do have one or two drives in a box
somewhere and quite a few of the folppies, themselves, as well)

3.5" floppy?  The link above is for a live CD.


so I just used dd to write zeros to the disk. It took a while, but it
> did the job.

For a HDD, the effect should be the same.


I partitioned the new disk with 3 physical partitions of 2GB each for
root/boot partitions.  ...
The 4th partition was set up for LVM and was set as a Physical Volume
(PV) to be added to the volume group along with my old drive.

The problem with putting everything on one big disk is that it becomes impractical to clone the system image. I'm still climbing the disk imaging learning curve, but it's a useful technique that has saved me countless hours.


In the end, I picked yet another method for moving to the new disk. ...

Congratulations on your success battling through it all, especially LVM.


David


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